Just thought forum members might like to see the GetaMac adverts. I haven't seen them showing here in the UK, but I don't watch much telly anyway. I like "Restarting" best, with "Viruses" a close second. What about you?

They play nicely in Mplayer, but although they stream OK in Ubuntu with the mozilla-mplayer plugin installed, I had to download each file in SuSE 10.0 because the mplayerplug-in wouldn't stream.

No it isn't, honestly. They really do play well in Mplayer. Are you using Ubuntu? Enable the multiverse repository and get mplayer and mozilla-mplayer and whatever else seems useful. Kaffeine also plays them OK. Ignore whatever the webpage is telling you. In Ubuntu the first ad just streamed without me doing anything (see my first post) but in SuSE I was told that I needed Quicktime - presumably the webpage detected I didn't have a working streaming video player. But I downloaded the video files in SuSE and they play OK.

Edit: Play OK in Xine as well, but not in Totem. Mplayer, xine, kaffeine - take your pick.

Hello wrote:Macs are one thing I never did like they were too expensive for what they were. O would actually prefer Windows to a mac.

When did you last look at a Mac? Someone showed me one of the new Intel powered Macbooks recently. The white ones are £749 or £899 - not much more than a good-quality Windows laptop of similar spec when you think about it. (The black one is expensive. The extra £130 gets you another 20G on the hd and - wait for it - a black case.)

What really impressed me was the seamless integration of classy hardware and very polished software. I'd be tempted to get myself a Mac mini (there's a spare channel on my kvm switch just waiting to be used) but for one thing; it all works too well. I'd be wanting to tinker and there'd be no point. I'd get bored.

spottedcat wrote:I'd be tempted to get myself a Mac mini (there's a spare channel on my kvm switch just waiting to be used) but for one thing; it all works too well. I'd be wanting to tinker and there'd be no point. I'd get bored.

The thing I have against buying a Mac is if I'm going to make a money no object purchase I'd go for a SPARC machine over a Macbook. True theres a big difference in price between them (I think you can get SPARC laptops for about £2500) but somebody compared a Mac to a Rolls Royce so I had to go one bigger .

These arguments are still why I back building the machine from scratch. Given the markup and the fact most of their machines are anachronisms buying from PC World is a bad idea irrespective.

A top quality PC is as good as a Mac (and quite frankly is little different bar a few cynical hardware locks these days). I'd still like to see Apple compete in the general PC market. Locking the technology to a small machine base is dodging the problem .